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iii
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Legal and Regulatory Risks Affecting our Business
x Our business depends on certain intellectual property rights and on not infringing the intellectual property
rights of others.
x We are party to various lawsuits which, if adversely decided, could have a significant adverse impact on
our business, particularly lawsuits regarding intellectual property.
x Our ability to distribute video content via the Internet involves regulatory risk.
x Changes in the Cable Act of 1992 (“Cable Act”), and/or the rules of the Federal Communications
Commission (“FCC”) that implement the Cable Act, may limit our ability to access programming from
cable-affiliated programmers at non-discriminatory rates.
x The injunction against our retransmission of distant networks, which is currently waived, may be reinstated.
x We are subject to significant regulatory oversight, and changes in applicable regulatory requirements,
including any adoption or modification of laws or regulations relating to the Internet, could adversely affect
our business.
x Our business depends on FCC licenses that can expire or be revoked or modified and applications for FCC
licenses that may not be granted.
x We are subject to digital high-definition (“HD”) “carry-one, carry-all” requirements that cause capacity
constraints.
x There can be no assurance that there will not be deficiencies leading to material weaknesses in our internal
control over financial reporting.
x We may face other risks described from time to time in periodic and current reports we file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC.
All cautionary statements made herein should be read as being applicable to all forward-looking statements
wherever they appear. Investors should consider the risks described herein and should not place undue reliance on
any forward-looking statements. We assume no responsibility for updating forward-looking information contained
or incorporated by reference herein or in other reports we file with the SEC.
Unless otherwise required by the context, in this report, the words “DISH Network,” the “Company,” “we,” “our”
and “us” refer to DISH Network Corporation and its subsidiaries, “EchoStar” refers to EchoStar Corporation and its
subsidiaries, and “DISH DBS” refers to DISH DBS Corporation and its subsidiaries, a wholly-owned, indirect
subsidiary of DISH Network.